1. Early Social & Personality Development & Precursors to Social Development

2. Oral Presentations: Topics, Partners, Dates #1) Early Social and Personality Development (Sept. 17) Open Discussion #2) Emotional Development (Sept 24) A. Carla H. & Etela B. Andrea & Karen H. C. Katherine H & Tanya F. & Sandy #3) Attachment and/or Borderline Personality Disorder (Oct. 1) A.Katie C. & Monica T. B.Cynthia C. #4) Theory of Mind or Autism (Oct. 13 th) (NOTE: Not Oct 8 th as originally scheduled) A. Kristin F & Catherine.C B.Chris S & Nargess C.Raman S. #5) Theory of Mind or Autism (Oct. 22) A. Fikir & Rameen B. Margaret C. Cecelia & Michelle W. #6) Social Development in Non-human animals (Oct 29) A. Russ & Shelagh B. Sandra* &

3. Oral Presentations: Topics, Partners, Dates #7) Gender Development (Nov 5) A. Melissa B. Carola* & Liz H. C. Mandy & Nancy D. D. Angela B & Kim R #8) Moral and Prosocial Development (Nov 12) A. Caitlin, Allaina, Jennifer B.Chloe & Jennifer N. C.Chelsey M. & #9) Antisocial Personality Disorder (Nov 19) A. Daniela & Sophie B. Clara & Erin C.Tenille & Alice D.Amy* & Kim #10) Development of Self and/or Autobiographical Memory (Nov 29) A. Adam G. & B. Tahira & C. Cynthia & #11) Dissociative Identify Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder) (Dec. 1) A.Michelle C. & Stephanie H. B.Claudia V.

4. Breaking News!!! A Single Gene for Social Bonding? The aggressive, unsociable, unfaithful mouse The sociable, faithful prairie vole

5. Precursors Prefer the smell and taste of mom (or familiar care giver) Prefer voices Prefer infant directed speech Prefer faces over other similar stimuli Prefer familiar caregiver’s face Prefer attractive faces

6. Why might infants prefer attractive faces? How might such a preference influence their development?

7. Early Precursors Detect & prefer human movement over non- human Point light Displays…

8. Pattern Perception: 3-4 mth-olds recognize human motion Point light displays contain minimal information but infants can discriminate human walking from control stimuli, and prefer humans (Bertenthal, 1993)

9. Early Precursors Attend to social contingencies In order to learn based on the consequences of your actions you first need to appreciate the contingency between the action and the consequence (i.e. if I do X, then Y happens) e.g. 2 month olds whose leg is tied by a string to a mobile quickly learn that the mobile moving is contingent upon their leg movements

10. From Johnson et al. (1998) “Gaze” Following of Contingent Agents

11. Detection and Memory For Social Contingency

12. Early Precursors Have different expectations of animate agents over inanimate agents they aren’t surprised if people move without making contact but are for inanimate objects when an object moves out of sight, the infants try to reach towards its place of disappearance; when a person moves out of sight, the infants vocalize (Legerstee, 1992)

13. The Visual Cliff and Social Referencing If Mom looks fearful, child won’t cross. If Mom looks happy, child will cross. At 9-10 mths, child uses emotional cues from social partner to interpret new things!

14. Video Clip and Video (Imitation)

15. Direct Imitation Meltzoff showed that newborn infants were capable of imitating a range of responses modeled by an actor.

16. Imitation

17. Imitation: via video & deferred

18. Imitation Rational action experiment

19. Imitation of Intended Action Older infants (~18 mths) can also imitate intentions of actors, even when they don’t see the completed action. They do not imitate machines. suggests infants appreciate that people have mental states that govern their behavior (i.e. early ‘theory of mind’)